State officials settle claims that the longtime computer supplier overcharged for standard desktop systems.
Betty Adams
Betty Adams is a general assignment reporter who’s lived in Augusta for the past 35 years and been working for the Kennebec Journal for more than two decades. She covers the courts plus the towns of Belgrade, Fayette and Readfield.
As adjunct instructor Elizabeth Adams, she teaches writing courses, including journalism, at the University of Maine at Augusta.
In her spare time, when she’s not playing with the grandchildren, bicycling on the rail trail, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing, she likes to travel both in the United States and abroad via cruise ship and occasionally on the back of a motorcycle.
She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and earned a master’s of journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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Bathgate denies killing Augusta man
AUGUSTA — An Augusta man today denied killing another man in what police say was jealousy over a woman.
Peter George Bathgate II, 30, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Kennebec County Superior Court on a charge of intentional and knowing murder.
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41 months not enough jailtime for repeat forger
AUGUSTA — A Canaan man who spent 41 months in federal prison for bank fraud and writing bad checks is at it again.
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Saco woman pleads guilty to 3 oxycodone thefts
Randa Lee Nason of Saco will spend 2½ years in prison.
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Judge expedites hearing on animal cruelty charges
The state has paid $58,000 to date to care for horses, goats, pigs and dogs seized last summer from a Clinton farm and the tab is increasing at a rate of $200 a day.
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2 former Maine men risk death penalty in Calif.
Robby Alan Beasley, 30, formerly of Augusta, and Elijah Bae McKay, 28, a former state champion wrestler from Gardiner Area High School, are charged with murdering Frank Maddox, 32, and his wife, Yvette Colon Maddox, 40.
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New wheels for bringing in a fortune
A woman with a knack for generating cosmetics sales earns another free car from Mary Kay — a pink Cadillac.
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Police say jealous rage fueled slaying
Peter George Bathgate II stabbed Paul Allen with a cane over a woman, a police affidavit says.
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Kennebec Journal building sold to social service agency
The newspaper, which is seeking a new home in Augusta, will have to vacate the site by March 17.
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In Augusta, a Griswoldish display
A doctor who admits to extreme holiday enthusiasm says it with synchronized lights and music.